Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (PAA)
Crude oil pipelines with a trucking division. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 27, 2026. Ranked 21 of the 61 Energy companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
32%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
41%
Employees, annual report
3,900
Leading staffing pattern
Pipeline Transportation of Crude Oil
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now32%
- End of 202739%
- End of 202841%
- End of 203041%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 54%
- Becomes checking a model's work 40%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
Plains All American states about 3,900 people employed by its general partner and Canadian subsidiary, 72% in the U.S. and 70% in the field; its crude oil pipelines lead, with the counted trucking division at truck transportation and the Canadian NGL plants and pipelines read apart by description.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 32% now, 39% at the end of 2027, 41% at the end of 2028, 41% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 41% desk work, 12% people work and 47% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 54% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 40% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
3,900 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). About 2,800 of 3,900 employees are in the U.S. and about 1,100 in Canada.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, GP LLC and PMC ULC employed approximately 3,900 people in North America, of which approximately 2,800 were employed in the U.S. and approximately 1,100 were employed in Canada.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Pipeline Transportation of Crude Oil | 55% | By description (c): the crude oil segment operates pipelines, gathering systems, terminals and storage across 23 states, the larger part of the 2,750 field employees (70%) the filing counts, crude oil pipeline transportation, NAICS 4861, the SIC 4610 business. |
| Truck Transportation | 14% | Stated count (a): approximately 550 employees in the trucking division, 14% of 3,900, hauling crude oil by truck, NAICS 4840. |
| Oil and Gas Extraction | 16% | By description (c): the NGL segment's extraction and fractionation plants in Canada, where about 1,100 employees work and 200 union members are associated with the Canadian NGL business, read at oil and gas extraction as the MPLX reading reads processing plants. |
| Other Pipeline Transportation | 15% | By description (c): the NGL pipelines, storage caverns and terminals of the NGL segment, other pipeline transportation, NAICS 4869, the rest of the Canadian and NGL workforce. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 3,900 people employed by GP LLC and PMC ULC, 2,800 in the U.S. and 1,100 in Canada across 23 states and four provinces; about 70% (2,750) field employees including 550 in trucking; about 200 Canadian NGL employees under six collective bargaining agreements open for renegotiation in 2026 through 2028.
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing's one AI sentence is a risk factor: the emergence of new technologies including generative AI could increase its operational and cyber risks or create new ones.
- “The emergence of new technologies (including generative artificial intelligence) could increase any of the foregoing risks or create new risks.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20241median 4
- Fiscal 20251median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 3,900 | 2026-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 4,200 | 2025-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 4,200 | 2024-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 4,100 | 2023-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 4,100 | 2022-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 4,400 | 2021-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 5,000 | 2020-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 4,900 | 2019-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 4,850 | 2018-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 5,100 | 2017-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 5,400 | 2016-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 5,300 | 2015-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 4,900 | 2014-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 4,700 | 2013-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 3,800 | 2012-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 3,500 | 2011-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 3,400 | 2010-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 3,302 | 2009-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 3,100 | 2008-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 2,900 | 2007-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 2,000 | 2006-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 1,950 | 2005-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 1,300 | 2004-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 1,200 | 2003-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 1,000 | 2002-03-21 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 915 | 2001-04-02 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-12-31 | 910 | 2000-03-30 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-12-31 | 210 | 1999-03-31 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The partnership has no employees of its own; its people are employed by its general partner GP LLC and its Canadian subsidiary PMC ULC, recorded as the filing states them and flagged as the MPLX and Enterprise Products readings are.
- The split among crude pipelines, NGL plants and NGL pipelines is by description (c); the trucking division alone is counted.
- Plains GP Holdings (PAGP) files the same workforce sentence for the same 3,900 and is skipped unread as a second registrant on this workforce.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001070423-26-000014, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 32% now and 41% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. employ?
- 3,900 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 72% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 4 industry staffing patterns, the largest Pipeline Transportation of Crude Oil; by those patterns the work is about 41% desk work, 12% people work and 47% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.'s annual report say about AI?
- 1 sentence in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 1 and 1 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on November 8, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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